How effective is therapy or treatment when it's used instead of incarceration, and what are the challenges to conducting it inside the coercive context of the criminal justice system? New Thinking hos

Josie Duffy Rice says remaking the justice system is a generational struggle, but it's one progressives are winning. The well-known criminal justice commentator and activist, president of the news sit

Why do some young people carry guns? It's a difficult question to answer. People in heavily-policed neighborhoods with high rates of violence aren't generally enthusiastic about answering questions ab

In their book, Prison By Any Other Name, activists Victoria Law and Maya Schenwar contend that much of what is packaged today as "reforms" to the criminal legal system are extending, not countering, t

While crime of nearly every kind has been declining amid COVID-19, in cities across the country, gun violence and homicides have been the exceptions. Long-time researcher and former Obama DOJ official, Thomas Abt,

The alleged use of a $20 counterfeit bill, selling loose cigarettes on a street corner, a broken brake lightthink how many police encounters that ended with the killing of a Black person began with m

Restorative justice is about repairing harm. But for Black Americans, what is there to be restored to? This episode features a roundtable with eight members of the Center for Court Innovations Restor

The death of George Floyd after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee to Floyd's neck for close to nine minutes has triggered a wave of long-held anger and revulsion across the country.

With justice systems across the country scrambling to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a lot of talk about what justice is going to look like when the virus ends. But what has the response actually consisted of—especially from prisons and jai...

The infection rate from COVID-19 in New York City's Rikers Island jails is currently almost 30 times the rate for the U.S. as a whole. As the city struggled to get people out from behind barscriticiz